Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks
Poetry • 126 pages • $20.90
Launching 5 Sep 2025
Poems by
Chrystal Ho
Join us at Alma House in a conversation between the author and academic Kamalini Ramdas. Copies will be available with a special launch discount!
“Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks is a gift of a collection, like an entrancing field guide for what it means to belong to earth and story. These poems shimmer and braid the wild and intimate.”—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks is a poetry collection that asks, amidst the climate crisis, how one continues to find wonder in the everyday.
Beginning from the confines of a HDB estate, the poems present a way of walking through Singapore’s landscape, to find moments of reconnection across time. In pieces that reconsider public housing as a garden, revisit the well-worn story of a national flower, and return to familiar rituals and language as inherited wisdom, the collection posits that some of our answers might just be awaiting us in plain sight—so long as we learn how to look.
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(b. 1996) is a writer from Singapore who works with poetry and non-fiction.
Her writing has been published in Portside Review, PR&TA, BiblioAsia, and Sine Theta Mag, among others. Keenly interested in exploring the interconnections between myth, language, and the environment, she is a former recipient of the NYU Shanghai Writing & Speaking Fellowship, as well as the National Library Creative Residency (Singapore).
The manuscript of Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks was a finalist for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. This is her debut collection of poetry.
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What God Took Your Legs Away
Poetry • 96 pages • $20.90
Publishing 5 Jul 2025
Poems by
Wahid Al Mamun
These poems strive to leap out of the collection. These poems build a bed, watch a cult film, read the news. They take endless flights between the personal and the political, between the specific contours of Singapore’s landscape and the broader trajectories of global movements and inequity. But they can never find their way home.
it took me eight years but here I am, carving, carving / against my wounds until I hit the bone and start
Written over eight years, Wahid Al Mamun’s debut collection of poems is an intricate exploration of migration, memory and love, built on the intersections of private griefs and communal narratives, uttered in a voice both tender and unflinching. What God Took Your Legs Away deftly interrogates the tensions between the body, the nation and their intertwined histories, and asks what it means to write with—and against—one’s (be)longings. It’ll bring you to your knees and take your breath away.
Boh Beh Zhao
Poetry • 104 pages • $20.90
Published 24 Apr 2025
Poems by
Cheng Him
Read the ST #1 Bestseller today:
“I finally can understand poetry. It is written as it should be—in Singlish… to see it in this form is nothing short of brilliant.”—Gurmit Singh
Cheng Him’s explosive debut poetry collection is a narrative-in-poems exploring the inner psyche of the mythical Singaporean Ah Seng, made prismatic through the lens of Buddhism and mid-2010s clubbing fervour.
From the tumultuous days of his childhood to the wayward hurricane of his youth, Boh Beh Zhao charts the trajectory of someone wandering through life as though it has no beginning or conceivable end, and plots his eventual landing into the barren fields of the latter. Hop onboard Ah Seng’s chaotic journey and ask yourself: what does it mean to live life so fast that all else seems to stand still?
ALLTHETIME 01
Poetry • 84 pages • $20.90
Published 27 Feb 2025
Poems by
Rosaly Puthucheary,
ArunDtiha & Zeha
With a critical introduction by
Cyril Wong
“If Singapore poetry is to reflect our actual lives, not just our aspirational narratives, then rib/cage is a luminous benchmark.”—Quarterly Literary Review Singapore